Way We Live

Deniz's second full-length album is a true reflection of the complexity and simplicity that have come to represent the artist.
Effortlessly weaving entirely new sub-genres, while daring to convey its fragility she assembles the Marcy All-Stars, a loose collective term that encompasses her longtime muses, friends, and co-conspirers. The term comes from the Marcy hotel in Williamsburg, New York – an underground nightclub-come-creative-space and Wolf + Lamb label studios that gave Nicolas Jaar his first gig, inspired a multitude of collaborations and reshaped the sound of house music as we know it.
The Way We Live sees the Turkish-born artist engage in collaboration on each of its 12 tracks. Wolf + Lamb's Gadi Mizrahi is the most frequent guest, appearing four times under his own name and once as one half of Wolf + Lamb. San Fran trio Pil-lowTalk appear three times throughout, while further members of the "Marcy All Stars" - Soul Clap, Tanner Ross, Thugfucker, Voices of Black - further colour the record. There's also a hook-up with Art Department's Kenny Glasgow on the track "Don't Wanna Be."
Stylistically, its unclear as to what type of sounds Kurtel explores on The Way We Live, although something in the vein of her 2011 debut for Crosstown Rebels, Music Watching Over Me, which traded in smoky, pop-tinged deep house, is to be expected.